PSY BEH 155C Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Countertransference
31 Jul 2018
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The process of therapy: resistance: resistance: avoiding talk of painful issues, wasting time on trivialities, being late or not showing up for therapy, demonstrates defenses in the context of therapy, when a client doesn"t answer a question. Therapists have a reaction; overwhelmed by being client. Patterns to look for: discrepancies: incongruities; client statements or behaviors that are inconsistent with each other, omissions: noteworthy absences of thoughts or feelings that are talked around and never addressed directly, excesses: extreme behaviors or expressions of emotion. Increased acceptance of feelings and wishes: replacement of (unconscious) defense mechanisms with (conscious) coping strategies, development of realistically complex and positive schemas for relationships between self and others. Interpretation: a therapeutic technique that produces insight: a therapist"s statement that brings an unconscious process to the client"s attention, once conscious, the mature ego can apply the most rational, realistic, and adaptive thinking to conflicts.
